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ROUNDS


Attend TMA Fall Conference Sept. 12–13


TMA members testify on DSHS, UIL sunset review


Business management help for your practice from TMA


TMA weighs in on public health, Medicaid funding


TMA calls for meaningful use moratorium


Join TMA’s statewide bicycle helmet giveaway


Docright compares EHRs, other HIT


Print and save DocbookMD messages


TMAF appoints new board member


HCMS Alliance provides med student scholarships


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About the cover


Waco otolaryngologist Brad Holland, MD, TEXPAC membership chair, says involvement is critical not only to TEXPAC’s success as a political entity but also to physicians’ success in caring for their patients.


PHOTO BY MATT RAINWATERS


18 TEXPAC needs you


TEXPAC is poised to get even tougher in an increasingly difficult political environment. TMA’s advocacy arm wants to ensure medicine’s voice rings in the Texas Legislature and good health policy prevails. The medical profession needs to be politically active now more than ever. BY AMY LYNN SORREL


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